Martin Fowler
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
“Build versus buy” decisions are everywhere today, and rightly so. Building software is risky and expensive, and software product companies can spread that risk and expense across multiple customers. But my colleague Brandon Byars argues that the kinds of tools that are available to buy for systems integration are not products that directly solve a business problem.
Erik Bernhardsson
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors 1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Other pure-software providers will build all the stuff on top of it. Databases, running code, you name it. We currently have cloud vendors that offer end-to-end solutions from the developer experience down to the hardware: What if cloud vendors focus on the lowest layer, and other (pure software)
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Martin Fowler
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Like many modern software architects, Andrew Harmel-Law struggles with the need to scale architectural thinking to larger organizations while allowing teams to be as autonomous as possible. The approach he's currently using is the "Advice Process", that encourages and supports these teams to be engaged in broader architectural decision making. In this first installment , Andrew describes this advice process, later installments will dig into four supporting elements that help make it work.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Lee Li. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lee Li is a project manager and B2B copywriter with a decade of experience in the Chinese fintech startup space as a PM for TaoBao, MeitTuan and DouYin (now TikTok). More posts by this contributor. With open banking on the horizon, the fintech-SME love story is just beginning. Investment in fintech is surging back following a brief but notable drop during the COVID pandemic.
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Agile Alliance
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
During the last two decades, turbulent business environments tempted firms to adopt agile methods to cope with the ever-changing customer demands. The success of agile methods in small and co-located teams inspired companies to apply them to large-scale endeavors. Agile scaling frameworks, such as the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) have been proposed by practitioners to … Continued.
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Agile Alliance
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
70% of executives are increasing their organization’s digital transformation. ServiceNow product leader, Thom Gray, Sr. Principal Product Manager, will sit down with Damaris Sevilla, Director, Agile Enablement Office at Assurant, to discuss their digital transformation journey. Assurant, a global fortune 500 company, will share how digital transformation helped them to improve their delivery to market … Continued.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Longer-term energy storage is a drag, and a lot of battery tech has been focusing on “how quickly can we charge these batteries so I can drive my EV for another couple of hundred miles.” That’s a fundamentally different problem than trying to capture the power of the sun for 12 hours, before releasing the power for the next 12 hours while the moon is doing its lazy stroll against the nighttime sky.
Agile Alliance
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
You are attending this Agile2021 conference. Ever wonder how it got started? How it has evolved? The conference actually has two beginnings, as the Agile2005 conference was the merger of the Agile Development Conference and XP/Agile Universe. Todd Little was one of the co-founders along with Alistair Cockburn who brought forth the Agile Development Conference … Continued.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Startups are often questions: What if we did things in a new way, instead of the way we have been? Massive is a good example of the genre: What if users could pay for apps or services not with money or attention, but with their spare compute power? The general concept of distributed compute power sourced from individuals is not new. Anyone familiar with the SETI screensaver has seen similar work before.
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Agile Alliance
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Prioritizing the stories in the backlog of a project with a large team, where the Product Owner does not have much experience in product management is already a big task itself and, in a remote context in the middle of a pandemic, it can be an even greater challenge. The idea of this lightning talk … Continued. The post Prioritizing user stories remotely – a framework to help an agile team first appeared on Agile Alliance.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
The HashiCorp IPO intends to shoot the narrows between Thanksgiving and Christmas, with its first IPO pricing interval set to give it among the richest valuations of any technology company with a strong open source component to its core business. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
There’s a lot of interest in GraphQL lately. The query language is excellent for data retrieval, and it could act as a more usable mechanism to evolve the traditional REST API integration approach. But as adoption grows steadily, architects are now considering the implications of managing GraphQL at scale. Certain issues may hinder GraphQL in […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Meet Upway , a French startup that is building a marketplace for second-hand electric bikes. The startup just raised a $5.7 million (€5 million) seed round from Sequoia Capital and Global Founders Capital. If you’re familiar with the world of online marketplaces for cars, Upway will sound familiar to you as well. The company buys electric bikes from both customers and companies.
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As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Like me, you have probably heard a lot about the “Great Resignation” lately. I’ll admit—at first I did not think it had anything to with tech jobs, especially not DevOps or cybersecurity jobs. After all, there aren’t many workers in those fields who aren’t well-paid (though, of course, when it comes to pay, it’s all […]. The post The ‘Great Resignation’ in DevOps?
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Marjorie Radlo-Zandi. Contributor. Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member, mentor to startups and angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. If you’re an entrepreneur looking to grow your business internationally, expanding into multiple countries can exponentially impact your bottom line business and brand, allowing you to grow efficiently.
CableLabs
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
CableLabs believes mutually beneficial relationships are crucial to the growth of any business. Whether growing a customer base or reaching a new market, strategic collaboration can deliver value to both parties. To raise awareness about the 10G network , we’ve joined forces with outstanding organizations like Corning to get innovators thinking about how to build technologies that will work on the network of the future with the 10G Challenge.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Brazil’s Nu Holdings, the parent company of the popular Latin American neobank Nubank, announced a reduction to the expected price of its public offering this morning. The well-funded fintech is listing in the United States and its native Brazil, and is among the final companies that TechCrunch is tracking for a 2021 debut. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.
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Tenable
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
This year for #GivingTuesday, we highlight some of the causes that Tenable employees have championed this year and invite you to do the same. . Tenable CARES is our charitable giving, company matching and volunteerism program. Employees can choose to support charitable organizations that are important to them — whether that's through giving, volunteer day hours, or other charitable and awareness activities towards doing good.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
A fantasy sports exchange founded by Irish betting veteran Paddy Power is bringing NFT-enabled live trading to rugby fans in a bid to expand globally. American Sports Exchange (ASX Sports), just signed a deal with New Zealand digital media company RugbyPass to use its data to allow fans to participate in ASX’s virtual stock market for rugby games.
The Daily WTF
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
There are a lot of times when we want string comparisons to be case insensitive. It's quite a lot of cases, so every language is going to give us a way to easily specify that's what we want. Take, for example, this C# code, written by one of Robin 's team-mates. override public void VerifyConnectionDetails ( bool queryRequired ). { if ( this.Name.EndsWith( "2" , StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) || this.Name.EndsWith( "2" , StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) { //
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
ThreeFlow , which provides software for insurance brokers selling employee benefits, announced today that it raised $45 million in Series B funding. New investor Accel led the round alongside existing investors Emergence Capital , Equal Ventures , and First Trust Capital Partners. The Chicago-based company, formerly known as WatchTower, raised $8 million for its Series A round in January 2021.
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The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.
Mentormate
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
In the two decades since its introduction, the Agile methodology and its core idea of minimum viable product have risen to prominence in software development. However, these processes are optimized for predictability and speed, at the expense of delivering the right features, an optimal user experience, or a future-proof design. Meanwhile, the field of Human-Centered Design (HCD) provides a cost- and time-effective path to delivering the right product and user experience the first time, by inves
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Abacum , a SaaS maker geared toward upgrading mid-sized companies’ financial planning and analysis tools, has fast-followed the $7 million seed it raised earlier this year ( April ) with a $25M Series A round. The latest funding brings its total raised to date to $32M. The Series A is led by European VC Atomico, with participation from Creandum, FJ Labs, S16VC, and other existing investors.
Daffodil Software
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Gurgaon, 30 November 2021: Daffodil Software, a leading software engineering company based in India, announced that it has made it to the finals of the European Software Testing Awards under the category of- Cognizant Best Use of Technology in a Project.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
A majority of restaurants and grocery stores still order food from distributors via voicemail and pay with paper checks, without paper trails or the ability to access order history. Pepper wants to change that. The New York-based company developed an ordering system specifically for food distributors that supports catalogues of over 100,000 items and enables these companies to launch mobile apps and websites so that they can accept orders and payments online.
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.
Radixweb
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
The IT sector is evolving very fast. Mobile and web development have created a stronger impression in every industry, irrespective of its size and area. The rapid growth of web development has made it difficult for every business to survive in this tough competitive world.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving-slash-holiday weekend. It’s more than a little mind-boggling that we’re reaching the end of 2021, but that only means one thing: TC Sessions: Space is almost here ! You can still join us for the two-day event; more details are below. As usual, send thoughts, comments and feedback to aria.techcrunch@gmail.com.
Dzone - DevOps
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Most of my talks contain a demo. A fair share of these demos require multiple "infrastructure" dependencies: a database (or more), Elasticsearch, you name it. To ease my setup and avoid stuffing my machine, I use either Docker Compose or Kubernetes locally on my Mac. Both rely on Docker Desktop. To expose a cluster Service on my host, I use nodePort.
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